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...State Cyrus Vance also said that the peace talks were not "dead" but added sadly: "It's obvious we have hit a bump in the road." Vance, who had served as the essential mediator between the Israeli and Egyptian Foreign Ministers during the talks, flew from Jerusalem to Cairo after Kamel's walkout, in a futile effort to get the negotiations going again. He found an enraged Sadat obsessed with Begin's "arrogance" and what he regarded as Israeli intransigence...
...Egypt could launch an attack on the Israelis, "but because the arsenal they have allows them to be so arrogant." On Sunday, after a meeting of his cabinet, Begin announced that in retaliation Israel would not send a delegation to the military talks, which were scheduled to resume in Cairo this week...
...essence," he said, "so let us invest it to the maximum and not just see it slipping through our fingers." Later that day, Dayan told a press conference that Kamel's statement was like "holding a pistol to our heads" and the Egyptian should take such statements "back to Cairo with him." Thus even before Vance and the Foreign Ministers had taken their places around a doughnut-shaped table (its hole in the center decorated with three potted palms) in a ballroom of the Jerusalem Hilton, it was clear that the euphoria generated by Sadat's visit...
...northern Sinai, 77 miles southwest of Tel Aviv, Yamit, like 15 other settlements near by, was built as an Israeli buffer between the Sinai and the Gaza Strip. Before last week's breakdown in peace talks, Begin had hinted that the territory might be handed back to Cairo. The idea touched off debate and diatribes throughout Israel, and the Premier subsequently said that the settlements would remain under Israeli sovereignty even if the Sinai is returned to Egypt. Prior to that promise, the settlers in Yamit were in an angry mood. The town is the one with the greatest...
...negotiations. Sadat's proposals, which he discussed with President Carter at Aswan two weeks ago, still envision self-determination (though not specifically statehood); in the declaration of principles, the Egyptians are ready to accept a phrase such as "a solution of the Palestinian problem in all its aspects." Cairo is also prepared to accept a lengthy transition period (probably five years) for the West Bank, hoping that the region would gradually develop permanent links with Jordan. During that period, Israeli forces would be withdrawn and replaced by U.N. and Jordanian forces. An agreement on the complex question of Jerusalem...